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Depends on the snake. There is a snake nicknamed the 3 step viper that kills within seconds. There are others that work slower. The purpose of a snake's venom is to kill so that it can eat. There would be no purpose for slow acting venom. Venom would work slower in larger animals if the snake's prey was a small animal. It would take more venom than the snake is able to produce to kill a larger animal.
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Nope, some will kill you in seconds +5
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It depends on the kind of snake, your body weight,etc. Some can kill in seconds, some might barely make you ill. +4
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Inland Taipan The average venom yield is 44 mg, 110 mg being the largest recorded, and the venom has a mouse LD50 of 0.03 mg/kg.[4] Its venom is 200-400 times more toxic than most rattlesnakes and 50 times as toxic as a cobra. The Inland Taipan has neurotoxic venom that could potentially kill an adult human in 45 minutes.[citation needed] There have been no documented human fatalities; bites were treated using antivenom.[citation needed] As of 2009, all bites positively identified as having been caused by the Inland Taipan have occurred in herpetologists handling the snake,[5] although there are many case reports of bites likely caused by the species.[6] source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan
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